Article
Are anxiety symptoms in childhood heritable?
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Mar 1995
Thapar A, McGuffin P
Abstract excerpt
Although childhood anxiety appears to aggregate in families, transmission could be explained by both genetic and shared environmental factors. Twin studies can be used to disentangle genetic and environmental effects. In this study, a systematically ascertained sample of twins was used to investi...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Anxiety
- Child
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Cohort Studies
- Diseases in Twins
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Personality Assessment
- Personality Development
- Phenotype
- Social Environment
- Wales